Open Access Journal: Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter

The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents was established in 1995
under the auspices of Oxford University's Faculty of Literae Humaniores
to provide a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford.
Over the last six years it has developed into a research centre of
national and international importance. The Centre forms part of the Classics Centre, currently located in the Old Boys' School in George Street.

The Centre provides a home for Oxford University's epigraphical archive,
which includes one of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions)
of Greek inscriptions in the world, together with the Haverfield archive
of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection.
The strengths of the epigraphical archive lie in its broad coverage of early
Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world. Individual
sites well represented in the archive include Chios, Samos, Priene, Rhodes,
and Samothrace. The material in the archive is currently being reorganised
and catalogued.

The Centre's Newsletter, published biannually in spring
and autumn, offers news of events and activities at CSAD. The newsletter
can be read or downloaded either in HTML format or as an Adobe Acrobat
document.
The following issues are available:

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.